February 14, 2012

Being married has many advantages one of them being that you always have a date and also a valentine! I especially appreciated that this year as I got to spend the day with my sweet husband. We had school and I had work that night but we found some time during the day to spend some quality time together. After school my sweetie took me to my favorite Mexican restaurant Los Hermanos. For Valentine's I really wanted to make sugar cookies so after lunch we went home and baked some cookies before I had to go to work. It was nothing extravagant but it was turned out to be such a fun time. I enjoyed just laughing and spending time with my honey.

I had an amazing day because of my amazing husband. I'm so lucky that I'm married to my best friend and also the most patient, amazing, dedicated, and sexy man I have ever met! I am scandalously in love with Andrew Evans!

XOXO A&A

Happy New Year!
I have been absentee from my blog for awhile because Andy and I have been so busy during the holidays with family, friends, and moving to Utah. Now that everything is starting to get back to normal I want to write a brief summary of our holiday season. For Thanksgiving we had the chance to go down to Colorado for a week to stay with my Aunt LaVon. We drove the whole way with my family and even though it was an extremely long drive it was so fun. We stayed in Denver for a couple days where we had the chance to visit some family and go do some fun stuff in the city. We went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science which was definitely a lot of fun. There were so many exhibits to look at we could have spent a couple of days to get through everything.

 We then drove to the little town of Granby to see my Mom's sister for Thanksgiving. It was so nice to have such a long break from school and work. We just hung out, played games (mostly Mario Party), ate delicious food and spent time with family. After we got back from that we finished up school and made our final preparations to move down to Utah. We moved down to our two bedroom Springville apartment on the 20th of December and then came back and stayed with my parents for a couple weeks before school started. The holidays are always such a wonderful time for friends and family. There is always such a special spirit around the holidays that makes everyone all warm and fuzzy inside I just love it! Andy and I had our first Christmas as a married couple and it was so amazing.

Now that the new year has begun that means more school and homework for both of us. I am attending BYU and Andy is going to UVU. We both enjoy our classes so far and are excited to finally have found a job. It was very stressful for us trying to find a job but we were so blessed to have found one in just a couple weeks of looking.


P.S. We use our cats to do crossfit so we are basically awesome!

11.11.11

This year my birthday was on 11.11.11 and I turned 22 so that was pretty much the coolest thing ever! Besides going to class I had such a good birthday. Andy got up extra early that day so he could make me some pancakes. After I got home from school, I got to open my presents which was a Nintendo 64 and tickets to the Forgotten Carols. Andy got me such thoughtful and perfect presents I was so happy! Later that night my best friend Clarice and her husband came over and had dinner with us. They brought their baby weiner dog which pretty much made my life. His name is Brindle and he is crazy!! Later that night my precious husband sang Happy Birthday to me with my delicious ice cream cake. It was such a wonderful birthday and all because of all my close friends and family. Pretty much the story is that I have the best husband of anyone!

Andy and I are moving to Utah! We recently decided that transferring would be best for us. Andy just really wanted to change his major to something he is really interested in, Criminal Justice, and they don't have that major at BYUI. I will be transferring back to BYU and Andy will be going to UVU. I'm really excited for this change in our lives and think it will really help Andy to be able to pursue his dream career. This last weekend we went down to Utah to try to find some place to live. We were interested in buying a house but we're not completely sure that's what we're going to do. We did find the cutest place ever that we both love so we'll see if it works out. Planning and organizing everything for this move has been stressful but I know it will be the best for us in the future.

This last month was filled with so much fun for Andrew and me. Every week for date night we tried to do something halloweenish and I absolutely loved it. Fall is such a fun time and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! The first weekend we went to a corn maze that was right off the highway south of Idaho Falls. We didn't bring any flashlights so it was fun to try to find our way around in the dark. I always thought I knew where we were going but until Andy took over the directions we were completely lost. Afterwards we went to Walmart because I really wanted to buy a mini pumpkin. I have a weakness for those every year because they are just so cute! As we were searching for one we stumbled across the Halloween costumes for dogs. They were so cute so I of course wanted them for our cats. We got the cutest pumpkin costumes but unfortunately they were not the biggest fans. They were trying to get out of them and walking weird the whole time so we unfortunately had to take them back but at least we got a couple pictures of them before that.

The next weekend we went with my two sisters to a straw maze in Rexburg. I had never been to one but I thought it was way fun even though I got impatient about getting out after an hour and a half. This maze was haunted and was actually surprisingly scary! When we pulled up across the street from the maze my sister turned and outside the window was one of the workers trying to scare us and it definitely worked!

Andrew and I carved pumpkins two times this year. The first time just at our apartment and the second at my parents house. I love carving pumpkins and getting all the gucky pumpkin guts everywhere.

Halloween day was very exciting for a couple of reasons. First and foremost my younger brother Spencer finally returned from working in California for the last couple of months. I was so excited that he is finally home and I can see him whenever I want! Also exciting because we got to go to a haunted house. We went to Dr. Slaughter's which is by far the best haunted house in Idaho Falls. We went with my bestest friend Clarice and her husband, Jacob, all my brothers and sisters, and with one of the family friends, Shannon. It was a terrifying and fun experience.

 Missed you brother!

 Really glad my husband got that creepy skeleton in the picture

In the car ready to go!

Last weekend Andy and I had the opportunity to go to Yellowstone National Park with my family. It was such a fun time we were so glad that we got to go! It was especially sentimental for me for a couple of reasons. First of all, all growing up my family went to Yellowstone almost every year. I definitely didn't appreciate it then but now when I go it just reminds me of many fun trips with my family. It was also reminiscent of my childhood trips because we stayed in the same hotel room that we would always stay in when we used to go when I was little. It was always so cool when we got to stay in this room because it was a huge room that had two king beds, a kitchen, and a balcony. 

 

This is all of us outside of our hotel.

 We saw so many beautiful sights, went on some fun hikes, and saw a lot of different animals. My main goal throughout the trip was to see animals. We didn't see very many the first day but the second day we saw some elk, bighorn sheep, and buffalo. 

 You can't see it very well in this picture but there is an elk in the background.

One of our favorite things we did was a hike to a beautiful waterfall. My mom called the hike the fire escape, I don't know if that was it's real name or just a description of what it was like. This was a long set of stairs (328ish) from the top of a mountain to the bottom where you had an amazing view of a waterfall. 

After this we decided to go onto a trail from here that connected to Artist's Point which was such a nice trail. The weather was beautiful and every place on the trail was an amazing scene. This was definitely one of the major highlights of the trip. 

This was one of those cute spots along the trail.

My cute parents!